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  • RE: A Broken Data Model

    Most of the airline industry is strapped for cash as it is and struggling just to stay alive. You don't seriously think they have the money or time and energy...

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

  • RE: Our Race with Machines

    One big solar flare or geo-magnetic storm would make most technology and machines today on earth useless. So, please remember that before you become too dependent on it or praise...

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

  • RE: Most important DBA Skill?

    I always tell people who want to ascend to managment "Hey that's fine. Just make sure you do it for the right reasons. Becoming a manager just to exercise control...

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

  • RE: The Security of You

    See my signature quote. 😀

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

  • RE: Most important DBA Skill?

    "One of them said there are only really 3 questions in an interview

    Can they do the job?

    Will they do the job?

    Will they fit in?"

    I noticed these aren't ordered in importance...

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

  • RE: Most important DBA Skill?

    joe.eager (5/2/2013)


    TravisDBA (5/2/2013)


    joe.eager (5/2/2013)


    People skills do not have to mean being a good socializer and spending a lot of time chatting.

    Joe,

    I don't think most of us are saying that at...

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

  • RE: If you're confident about a change in your DB, triple check

    Brent Ozar wrote a SQL script called "Blitz! 60 Minute Takeovers" that is meant for DBA's taking over existing database servers and databases that they are inheriting. It's a priceless...

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

  • RE: Most important DBA Skill?

    joe.eager (5/2/2013)


    People skills do not have to mean being a good socializer and spending a lot of time chatting.

    Joe,

    I don't think most of us are saying that at all. People...

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

  • RE: Most important DBA Skill?

    djackson 22568 (5/1/2013)


    I can go much further than that. Nice, quiet, unassumming surgeons with excellent people skills and the patience of a saint don't exist. OR nurses learn...

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

  • RE: Most important DBA Skill?

    Exactly djackson, they are two totally different things. 😀

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

  • RE: Most important DBA Skill?

    majorbloodnock (5/1/2013)


    TravisDBA (5/1/2013)


    majorbloodnock (5/1/2013)


    umailedit (4/30/2013)


    My point is that if I'm being operated on, I don't want one brilliant person; I want the best team performance possible. If one person's performance,...

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

  • RE: Most important DBA Skill?

    majorbloodnock (5/1/2013)


    umailedit (4/30/2013)


    Let me take the contrary view here.

    Hypothetical Question: You are about to have a brain aneurysm operated on. Who would you pick?

    1) A brain surgeon with little less...

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

  • RE: Most important DBA Skill?

    Jim Youmans-439383 (4/30/2013)


    Part of the daily grind for a DBA, in my experience, is dealing with frustrated people. You have to have excellent technical skills to find and fix...

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

  • RE: Most important DBA Skill?

    phonetictalk (4/30/2013)


    I would argue there's a difference between lacking people skills and being rude/arrogant/short-tempered too. While people without people skills can come across as rude or arrogant, it's a question...

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

  • RE: Most important DBA Skill?

    Miles Neale (4/30/2013)


    TravisDBA (4/30/2013)


    A past boss of mine once told me once when I asked him what he expected from me as his main DBA and he told me something...

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

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